Thursday, April 21, 2011
Ottawa - Canadian researchers uncover new study, playing video games can trigger people to eat more, even when not hungry though. Like what?
Studies on 22 volunteers, male teens are asking volunteers to sit for an hour at lunch proceed comfortable chair. On separate occasions, volunteers continue to play a video game lunch.
Interestingly, the game encourages teens to consume 80 calories more at lunch. After lunch, the scientists examined the blood of volunteers to see if the subject is becoming more hungry after playing the game.
But scientists found no evidence of the game affect hunger.
"When playing games, a number of calories burned and make them eat more," said Dr Chaput kinesiologis at children's hospital research institute Eastern Ontario.
The study involved scientists theorize, the food to be 'gifts' after winning the game. Activities using computers and to train mental line games make people increased appetite.
"It was not that hungry but 'gifts'."
For further studies, Dr. Chaput plans to study the eating habits of individuals after playing Nintendo Wii, a system that makes players have to get up and move to follow the game.
